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ENTREPRENEURIAL MOTIVATION POTENTIAL OF ECONOMICS STUDENTS IN SLOVAKIA: WHICH ARE THE HRM IMPLICATIONS FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL POLITICS AND PRACTICE?
On the sample of N=304 economics students from Slovakia are examined the following entrepreneurship motivation variables: a) professional attraction of entrepreneurship; b) social valuation of entrepreneurship; c) perceived entrepreneurial capacity; d) entrepreneurial intention; e) key entrepreneurial motivators (extrinsic and intrinsic); f) perceived entrepreneurial support; g) perceived entrepreneurial barriers.Obtained results suggest relatively low attractivenes of entrepreneurship profession in relation to the other professional options; average social support in realization of entrepreneurial idea; relatively low perception of entrepreneurial knowledge importance; relatively low entrepreneurial intention; intrinsic motivation factors showed as more important than extrinsic; not perceived any important supportive/logistic to entrepreneurs; predomintly are perceived entrepreneurial barriers. Calculated entrepreneurial potential showed as rather low, what gives HRM implications for entrepreneurial politics and practice.
Release: 2017/2 Pages: 26-42 JEL classification: M5, M51, M52
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Keywords: motivation variables of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial motivational potential, entrepreneurial politics, entrepreneurial development, management with motivation factors of entrepreneurship, HRM.
Section: HUMAN RESOURCES AND PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
Contacts:
Doc. dr. sc. Mario Bogdanović, BA&MSc&PhD Economics, Prof. Psychology, senior research associate
Management Department,
University of Split Faculty of Economics, Croatia
Cvite Fiskovića 5
21.000 Split
Croatia
e-mail: mario.bogdanovic2015@gmail.com
dr. sc. Lara Cakić, Prof. Psych&MSc&PhD in Psychology, research associate in psychology
I. Gundulića 53
31.000 Osijek
Croatia
e-mail: laracak@yahoo.com
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